| Show virgin oil field E I 1 hastings more famil familiarly virly known in oil circles as is dad hastings arri armed ed in silt lake this morning from virgin utah after having drilled what lie considers the deepest w ell in the state operating for the glenn ausa oil company composed of california C oil men ho be has been the thornly only driller in that field for over a 3 ear at a depth of feet an 18 inch oil sand was struck which gave about one barrel per day believing that greater quantity would be struck at depth drilling in was as continued tho the depth at the present time is 2622 2522 feet and the last 1500 has been in a white sandstone sometimes r ome times with small strata of a harder reddish sand the first well N ell in the virgin field was struck by a rhyolite Rhy nov nev company organized as the virgin river oil and development company it pumped 50 60 barrels per day but there was no market other operators entered and started drilling A total of 21 trolls were started everyone every one that went over feet bad some oil said sir mr hastings at the cullen this morning but they were either not noe equipped to handle it or there was not enough to make male it pay at such a distance from tho the railroad tho the biggest was the companas comp anys well then col R D wood drilled two wells the first of which went nine barrels per day and which if pumped could now give from six to eight without diminishing the output the oil is from 16 15 to 17 degrees gravity but the peculiar thine thing about it is that the base is there is but a ery cry small amount of asphaltum asphalt uro present it can probably be accounted for in the fact that during the volcanic activities to which the country was N as subjected the heat vol utilized the lighter products and eft left the baser ones thereby decreasing the gravity of the oil 1 I there is some talk at the present time ime to the effect that the oil company will start up when spring opens thomas doney of virgin is in charge foi this company and associated with him are J W imlay thomas sterling and roane roine it own ground nor north th and a little east about one mile and one half from virgin city it has excellent chances to bring in iii a well As to the future of the field I 1 dont see much money in sight unil til a railroad is built it is 80 miles from torn lund on the salt lake route ho the nearest shipping station driling drilling ling is expensive on that account it also puts the market so far an ay that for the amount of oil developed at present it would not be profitable to produce it for the local supply is limited A railroad would mean the development of the field but until that time comes it will nill pio bably not bo be given a big share oade of de elopement elop ment tribune representative harshberger has introduced bill no in the house if sm amending ending section of the coin compiled 1 laws relating to ballots at election the principle amending eliminates the use of party emblems while other technical amendments also are made |
